MeridianSooloos produce first jointly developed touchpanel: Control 10

Given just how zany the past few months have been in the HD world, you probably forgot all about Meridian and Sooloos' little tie-up back in December. Lo and behold, the newly conjoined company has just released its first jointly developed product, the Control 10 touchscreen. The device integrates Meridian's proprietary connectivity with a Sooloos touchscreen in order to create what's called the "most user-friendly media-access solution yet." For those with lots of Meridian equipment, it'll be hard to let this one pass given just how well it'll integrate, and there's also RS-232 for more widespread control. Hop on past the break for the nitty-gritty, but only after you've grown comfortable with the $5,000 asking price.

Meridian Sooloos, Together At Last: New Touchscreen Available

Control 10 now offers Meridian SpeakerLink/Comms Connectivity for SimpleIntegration

New York, New York, March 13, 2009‹Meridian is pleased to deliver the firstof its new designs with Sooloos, the recently acquired manufacturer ofserver-based home entertainment systems widely acknowledged as the mostinnovative and sophisticated available. The Control 10 integrates Meridian¹sproprietary connectivity with the award-winning Sooloos touchscreen, themost user-friendly media-access solution yet created.

³Our goal for the first Meridian Sooloos product was to incorporate theSpeakerLink technology as well as legacy-standard Meridian Comms, providingan integrated system that was incredibly simple yet technically andsonically superior,² said Meridian CEO, Peter Wellikoff. ³Now the Control 10is not only the perfect complement to a Meridian system, it remains a superboption for any installation requiring the most intuitive media server on themarket.²

Featuring the Meridian SpeakerLink and legacy Meridian Comms protocols, theControl 10 can seamlessly integrate with Meridian¹s famed DigitalLoudspeakers, preamp/controllers, and music systems, and includes RS-232 forintegration with the full spectrum of legacy media and home-control systems.The Control 10 also incorporates on-board S/PDIF coaxial digital outputs,permitting it to function as a complete Sooloos ³zone².

The desktop-style Control 10 touchscreen features a razor-sharp 17-inch LCDdisplay with crisp, HD-level imaging and a resistive touch panel withoutstanding user feedback. Adding to its ease of use, the Control 10includes a slot-loading CD drive in its low-profile base for convenient,local loading or playback of content without requiring a computer oroutboard disc drive.

The Meridian Sooloos touchscreen uses cleverly integrated heatsinking for afanless design that renders the Control 10 completely silent, and thus idealfor the most demanding listening environments and customers. Like allSooloos components, the Control 10 communicates with its Storage and Sourcecomponents via standard TCP/IP Ethernet connectivity, using either thesupplied high-quality Neutrik EtherCon connectors or any conventionalCAT5/5e/6 RJ-45 cables.

In the ever-changing world of home-entertainment technology, the MeridianSooloos media-management system is a complete solution that allows music andphotos to be easily accessed easily and reliably stored.